A terrified mum who feared her little boy was going to die when he suddenly suffered a seizure in the back of the car has thanked two passing motorists who stopped to help.

Sian Jones says she doesn’t know what she would have done without the assistance of the two men after going into a state of shock when two-year-old Jaxon Hughes turned blue and stopped responding.

The 29-year-old from Brymbo, Wrexham, was driving to her mum’s for Sunday lunch when Jaxon suffered the seizure, and had to pull over on Ruthin Road slip road in order to dial 999.

After being helped by the two caring motorists to put her son in the recovery position and take instructions over the phone from the ambulance service, Jaxon was rushed to Wrexham Maelor Hospital where he suffered a further two seizures.

He remains on the children’s ward undergoing tests to determine the cause.

Recalling the ordeal on Sunday, Sian said: “I looked at him in the back of the car and his eyes went up, he went stiff and started going blue.

“I thought he might be choking. I didn’t have a clue what was going on.

“I remember getting him out of the car and dialling 999. A car stopped for me – a lad who had a newborn baby and a boy in the front. He was helping me.

“I was just screaming down the phone, ‘I need an ambulance now, my son is dying’. It was horrendous, like a bad dream.

“Another man in a white and red sports shirt stopped just after and he was helping make sure that Jaxon was breathing.

“They were putting their hand on his chest to check as I was shaking like a leaf.

“I don’t know what I’d have done if nobody had stopped. I was really shaking. I can’t thank them enough.”

Jaxon had been sick on Friday and doctors confirmed on Sunday that he had gastroenteritis, which they suspect caused him to have the seizures.

“He’d had sickness all day on Friday and I was told to keep him hydrated,” added Sian. “But he wouldn’t take any fluids or food.

“He had the first seizure at about noon in the car and then the second at 2.30pm and the third at 4pm. Thankfully he hasn’t had one since. We’re still in hospital and waiting on results.”

Sian and partner Mark Hughes, who was at home asleep at the time of the seizure having worked a night shift, are keen to trace the two motorists to personally thank them for all their help, and to also return the baby blanket given to Jaxon by one of them on the roadside.

“I don’t know what Jaxon would do without his blanky,” said Sian. “So I’m desperate to give it him back and to also thank them both.”